Former FBI profiler and bestselling author Candice DeLong is an internationally recognized homicide expert, TV news commentator, and TV documentary host, producer and contributor. She has been a guest on CNN, MSNBC, HLN, FOX NEWS, Meet the Press, Hardball, Dateline, 48 Hours, Today, GMA, as well as Dr. Phil and Oprah. She was the creator and talk show host of CRIME TIME with Candice DeLong, a Cumulus radio show broadcast in San Francisco from 2012-2013. CRIME TIME enjoyed the highest number of podcast hits for any show on KGO radio, averaging 30,000 hits/week. The next highest rated show was a long-time morning show -35 years - averaging 7,000 hits/week. Candice was recruited by the FBI while serving as Head Nurse at the Institute of Psychiatry in Chicago- Northwestern University Hospital. Candice’s career as a psychiatric nurse sets her apart from other crime analysts or FBI profilers in that she has a clinical perspective on violent crime that most other commentators lack.

For twenty years Candice was on the front lines of some of the FBI’s most memorable and high-profile cases, including the Chicago Tylenol Murders. She was chosen as one of two agents for a lengthy undercover assignment in the UNABOM case and spent the afternoon in a remote mountain cabin with Ted Kaczynski on the day his own cabin was being searched by FBI bomb techs. Months later, while serving as the Acting FBI Supervisor of the San Francisco Division’s Child Abduction/Serial Killer Task Force, Candice and her teammates were searching for a child molester on the run with a kidnapped boy. Upon finding them at the Oakland AMTRAC station, she literally grabbed the boy’s arm and pulled him away from the offender. Candice was the Head Profiler in the San Francisco office, and served on the State of California’s Child Abduction Task Force until her retirement in 2000.

Her memoir SPECIAL AGENT: My Life on the Front Lines as a Woman in the FBI (Hyperion, 2001), was the first career memoir to be written by a female agent. It was a featured pick by The Book of the Month Club, The Literary Guild and The Mystery Writer’s Guild, and Reader’s Digest excerpted her memoir for national and international distribution as Today’s Best Nonfiction in 2001. SPECIAL AGENT was a best seller on Amazon, and was developed into a TV movie, KILLER INSTINCT: From the Files of Candice DeLong, produced by Lifetime TV. The last chapter of SPECIAL AGENT was the basis of a weekly reality show, What Should You Do? in 2003 and 2004, also on Lifetime. For the past fourteen years Candice has been the face of the longest running show on Investigation Discovery, DEADLY WOMEN, now seen in 165 countries. In this hit show Candice uses her knowledge of psychiatry and her expertise as a career investigator to explain some of the world’s most fascinating killers. She was the creator, executive producer and host of FACING EVIL with Candice DeLong on Investigation Discovery from 2010 to 2015, an inimitable show that took her behind prison walls (and even to death row) to talk one-on-one with 36 convicted killers. Ten podcasts were produced from this series Candice has been a guest writer regarding safety for women for Cosmopolitan magazine as well as many other online publications, and is frequently quoted by the New York Times, LA Times, Newsweek, Foxnews.com, CNN and New York Daily News regarding crime stories in the news. Her most recent media interview was in an Op-Ed piece in USAtoday.com on April 3, 2020.